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title: In the UK's main Lotto the chance of the jackpot is about 1 in 45 mi… — "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy · tree and pragmatics
description: In the UK's main Lotto the chance of the jackpot is about 1 in 45 million for each ticket, every single draw, however long you have waited. Who acts: Lotto chance, you, jackpot. A sentence of the lesson «"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# "I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy, sentence 17

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In the UK's main Lotto the chance of the jackpot is about 1 in 45 million for each ticket, every single draw, however long you have waited.

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**Who acts:** Lotto chance, you, jackpot · **What happens:** be, wait, chance · **To what, where:** 1, 45 million

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"I'm due a win": the gambler's fallacy» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lotto chance, you, jackpot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy.lesson:17
# text = In the UK's main Lotto the chance of the jackpot is about 1 in 45 million for each ticket, every single draw, however long you have waited.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 171-im-due-a-win-the-gamblers-fallacy.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod
6	Lotto	Lotto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	jackpot	jackpot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	draw	draw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
26	however	however	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	waited	wait	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Lotto chance of the jackpot for each ticket | 1 |  | 45 million |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **chance** |  | the jackpot |  |  |  |  | for each ticket | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=agent for=obl |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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